Culp, the girls junior varsity head basketball coach at Yreka High School, helped run a shooting camp this past week.

The week-long camp, which had girls from sixth grade to high school age take part, worked with the players on a variety of drills and had different guest coaches teach them how to perfect their shot.

This is the first year the Lady Miners basketball program has held the camp.

Culp said that the hope is to help these girls develop good shooting habits and empathize to them that it takes a lot of dedication and practice to become a good shooter.

Culp said that this summer. the Lady Miners basketball program is planning a 25,000 shot camp. The plan is for the girls who take part to shoot the ball 25,000 times over the summer, Culp said.

By the time basketball season rolls around in the winter, Culp believes they will hopefully see the girls on the Miners basketball teams transformed into better shooters.

"If we can improve our shooting we feel it will help open up the rest of our offense," he said.

One of the girls who participated in the camp was Aleycia LaRue, who played on the Lady Miners freshman basketball team this past winter.

LaRue said the camp was a great way for her to become a more complete shooter.

"The camp helped make me a better shooter because of the repetition of shots we practiced," LaRue said. "Shooting is all about muscle memory, so taking hundreds of shots a day was very helpful. We also had multiple experienced coaches to help us get a correct form for our shooting."

During the camp, guest coaches who know a thing or two about shooting came out to help the girls.

This included Tom Powers, the women's head basketball coach at College of the Siskiyous.

During the camp on Wednesday, Culp asked Katie Brummett, who recently completed her senior year on the basketball team and helped out at the camp, how she was able to become a better shooter throughout her high school career.

"I kept shooting," she said. Brummett added that constantly practicing her shooting helped her on the court during game time.

LaRue said that one thing that helped her at the camp was being videotaped while shooting the basketball.

"It allowed me to look at my form instead of just feeling what I was doing," LaRue said. "This helped me improve a lot. It let me get a look at what I needed to do to get a better shot."

LaRue believes that being more consistent shooters will only help the program next season.

Page 2 of 2 - "At the high school level, a lot of games are won by free throws," she said. "Good shooters are a very important thing for a team to have."